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authorAnshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>2025-06-20 10:54:27 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-08-20 18:41:41 +0200
commitca8c414499f2e5337a95a76be0d21b728ee31c6b (patch)
treec370621afd3d0c73f9a58917ab1bac002f4a1611
parent479b2c6a9f5380fb176bbfc15369ada70ba3a463 (diff)
mm/ptdump: take the memory hotplug lock inside ptdump_walk_pgd()
commit 59305202c67fea50378dcad0cc199dbc13a0e99a upstream. Memory hot remove unmaps and tears down various kernel page table regions as required. The ptdump code can race with concurrent modifications of the kernel page tables. When leaf entries are modified concurrently, the dump code may log stale or inconsistent information for a VA range, but this is otherwise not harmful. But when intermediate levels of kernel page table are freed, the dump code will continue to use memory that has been freed and potentially reallocated for another purpose. In such cases, the ptdump code may dereference bogus addresses, leading to a number of potential problems. To avoid the above mentioned race condition, platforms such as arm64, riscv and s390 take memory hotplug lock, while dumping kernel page table via the sysfs interface /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables. Similar race condition exists while checking for pages that might have been marked W+X via /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables/check_wx_pages which in turn calls ptdump_check_wx(). Instead of solving this race condition again, let's just move the memory hotplug lock inside generic ptdump_check_wx() which will benefit both the scenarios. Drop get_online_mems() and put_online_mems() combination from all existing platform ptdump code paths. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250620052427.2092093-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Fixes: bbd6ec605c0f ("arm64/mm: Enable memory hot remove") Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> [s390] Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c3
-rw-r--r--arch/riscv/mm/ptdump.c3
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c2
-rw-r--r--mm/ptdump.c2
4 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c b/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c
index 68bf1a125502..1e308328c079 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#include <linux/debugfs.h>
-#include <linux/memory_hotplug.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <asm/ptdump.h>
@@ -9,9 +8,7 @@ static int ptdump_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
{
struct ptdump_info *info = m->private;
- get_online_mems();
ptdump_walk(m, info);
- put_online_mems();
return 0;
}
DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(ptdump);
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/ptdump.c b/arch/riscv/mm/ptdump.c
index 32922550a50a..3b51690cc876 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/ptdump.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/ptdump.c
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
#include <linux/efi.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/debugfs.h>
-#include <linux/memory_hotplug.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/ptdump.h>
@@ -413,9 +412,7 @@ bool ptdump_check_wx(void)
static int ptdump_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
{
- get_online_mems();
ptdump_walk(m, m->private);
- put_online_mems();
return 0;
}
diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c b/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c
index ac604b176660..9af2aae0a515 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c
@@ -247,11 +247,9 @@ static int ptdump_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
.marker = markers,
};
- get_online_mems();
mutex_lock(&cpa_mutex);
ptdump_walk_pgd(&st.ptdump, &init_mm, NULL);
mutex_unlock(&cpa_mutex);
- put_online_mems();
return 0;
}
DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(ptdump);
diff --git a/mm/ptdump.c b/mm/ptdump.c
index 9374f29cdc6f..0a6965e2e7fa 100644
--- a/mm/ptdump.c
+++ b/mm/ptdump.c
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ void ptdump_walk_pgd(struct ptdump_state *st, struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd)
{
const struct ptdump_range *range = st->range;
+ get_online_mems();
mmap_write_lock(mm);
while (range->start != range->end) {
walk_page_range_novma(mm, range->start, range->end,
@@ -182,6 +183,7 @@ void ptdump_walk_pgd(struct ptdump_state *st, struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd)
range++;
}
mmap_write_unlock(mm);
+ put_online_mems();
/* Flush out the last page */
st->note_page_flush(st);